Alexander Yegorov

Alexander Yegorov (25 October 1883-22 February 1939) was a Marshal of the Soviet Union during the Russian Civil War and Polish-Soviet War. He was executed during the Great Purge in 1939 alongside fellow marshals Vasily Blyukher and Mikhail Tukhachevsky.

Biography
Alexander Ilyich Yegorov was born on 25 October 1883 in Buzuluk, Samara Governorate, Russian Empire. He was initially opposed to the Bolsheviks and helped in the Imperial Russian Army's quelling of the 1905 Revolution, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel during World War I. In 1917, he joined the Bolsheviks when they took power in the Russian Revolution, and in he commanded Bolshevik forces during the Russian Civil War on the western front and in the Polish-Soviet War. Yegorov was appointed one of five Marshals of the Soviet Union upon the title's creation in 1935, but alongside Vasily Blyukher and Mikhail Tukhachevsky he was executed in 1939 during the Great Purge.